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Bedek HaBayit (Hosafot HaBeit Yosef) – Venice, 1606

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Bedek HaBayit, corrections and additions to Beit Yosef by R. Yosef Karo. Venice: Zanetto Zanetti, 1606. Second edition.
Bedek HaBayit was printed decades after the passing of R. Yosef Karo, based on notes he wrote for himself after the printing of the first edition of his Beit Yosef. These notes were introduced into later printings of Beit Yosef.
The first edition of the book was printed about a year before this edition, in Thessaloniki, 1605.
On recto and verso of last leaf, signatures of the censors Giovanni Domenico Carretto (dated 1628) and Clemente Renatto.


[2], 68 leaves. Misfoliation. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Light wear. Minute worming to first leaves. Close trimming, slightly affecting header of one leaf. Old cardboard binding.

Early Printed Books – 16th and Early 17th Centuries
Early Printed Books – 16th and Early 17th Centuries